K & I survived our runs. K did great on the 5k with a 32:37 (officially).
Her 1km splits (based on her time across the start line not the gun):
7:01
6:37
6:17
6:32
5:45
—–
32:14 (She started her watch at the start line, but still can’t explain the 23 second difference.)
She said she felt pretty good, and her time was good enough I was able to shadow her on the last km with her before getting ready for my start (about 40 minutes after hers).
As I said in the last post, I had some kind of cramp (or strain sounds more likely from Lisa & Todd’s comments). I lasted about half a mile before the calf started to hurt, but I took it easy and pushed on. I figured if it was really bad it would hurt more and let me know. Since my leg was hurting/stiff I kept the initial pace down, and it only hurt me particularly badly now and then (one pretty bad spike at about 6 miles). By 7 miles I wasn’t really feeling it (or maybe noticing it) anymore and my pace picked up. Here are my splits:
8:46*
8:46* (I missed the split at 1 mile, so this is the 2 mile split divided by 2)
8:43
8:46
8:45
8:20
8:38
8:25
7:54
7:16
—–
84:21 (officially 1:24:11, I can’t explain where the other ten seconds went)
I’m pretty happy with that, but then I’m left wondering how much better I might have done if my leg had been better. Anyhow, a great day for a run, and it felt great to do well.
Of course now I can barely walk, but next week was vacation anyways so I have plenty of time to rest it.
July 5th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Congratulations to both of you. Yours is not the first race where the official time and the watch time were inexplicably different.
Next time, remember to smile across the finish line. Better yet, make sure you smile every time you pass someone. It’s demoralizing to get passed by a person who’s smiling.
July 5th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Ooo! I just realized that you Kristin had kilometer splits. How weird. I’ve never run a 5k race that had non-mile splits. That almost seems, unamerican!
I’ve always wondered why more races aren’t going that way. Of course, I’m trained to think in miles for my pace, so I’d have to do some mental juggling if everything started to be kilometers.
July 5th, 2008 at 7:34 am
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July 5th, 2008 at 9:29 am
I seem to remember the last time I ran the race, they had mile splits (chris might remember better has he ran it last summer), but this year they had the kilometers marked, so that’s when I hit the split on my watch. The problem was I couldn’t convert to min/mile in my head, so I didn’t have a clue how my pace compared to what I run during the week. Probably why I just ended up missing my stretch goal of 32 min.